It has always amazed me that high-falutin' university bizness grads never learned the childhood lesson of what happens when you push on a water balloon. When you push, something else pops up somewhere else. And if you push everywhere too hard at once it breaks (and now you gotta go get another balloon and fill it up with the water going everywhere).
Or that carrots usually work better than sticks for creatures with an IQ over 10. Especially if the creature isn't really afraid, has kinda gotten used to the stick, and really doesn't care anymore. Even with lesser critters. If you keep beating the cat over silly stuff it runs and hides where you can't get to it once you walk into the room (and if you try too hard to drag it out you get scratched, bitten and furry). But if you bring out the food, even the click of the can opening can get it where you want it.
Things go much better when people WANT to go the extra mile to help out and WANT to help the team succeed. This is a two way street.